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Pentaho - Fast and Furious Data Integration
Updated August 19, 2015

Pentaho - Fast and Furious Data Integration

Alex Meadows | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

5.0

Modules Used

  • Pentaho Data Integration

Overall Satisfaction with Pentaho

Pentaho Data Integration is used to move data into our data warehouse solution, used for various projects.
  • Data Integration. PDI handles pretty much any type of data source and can transform data and conform it to any type of business logic.
  • Object Oriented ETl Coding. Code developed in PDI can be shared across numerous jobs/transformations. This allows for resusable and maintainable code.
  • Flexibility and plugins. If the function that you are looking for is not built into the tool, it's fairly straightforward to either download or develop plugins. There is a huge community of users that build new functionality all the time.
  • Scaleable and cloud ready. PDI is able to cluster and scale out to handle huge data sets.
  • The speed at which some trouble issues get resolved could be improved.
Talend and Pentaho have a lot of the same functionality, but Talend's interface is not as intuitive. Talend generates code that is then executed while Pentaho is an engine based tool with highly optimized Java code templates that are compiled at runtime.
The flexibility of the tool and the quality of support from Pentaho make this a great, relatively inexpensive alternative to the larger proprietary tools.
  • We are able to be agile with our code development.
  • We are able to have faster turn around on code development, integrate to standard tools like Git and Jenkins, and save time to release products.
PDI is a great alternative to proprietary tools. If your environment is just starting out using ETL tools, definitely look into using PDI. The number of features plus the ability to write flexible dynamic processes allows for much more maintainable code.

Using Pentaho

1 - Knowledge of Business Intelligence, Data Integration, and data usage is a must. The tools are relatively easy to learn with the given references, community, and general ecosystem but it does take time to master - as with any tool set.

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